Re: [flexcoders] Re: Stand-alone apps

[hank williams]

You're technically right, of course it is a file on the hard disk (cant imagine how else one might have thought it would work). But it cant be moved from within flash, so from a practical perspective you cant do anything with it unless you have an exe. I dont think it would be such a winning user experience to be telling users to grab the file from some obscure location since you cant use any kind of get or save file functionality as you would in a regular app. And of course if you move it, you have to know exactly where to put it, and this will be different on different computers. So while you may be able to explore the file using solVE, it is a fairly useless file in the context of a portable data file.
Regards,HankOn 10/24/06, Doug Lowder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:



Actually, local shared object data is stored (on Windows systems at least) in a file with a .sol extension.  If you know where to find it, you can copy the file to another computer, email it, back it up, or do anything else you'd like.  You can even use Darron Schall's SolVE application to view and edit the contents, pretty handy for debugging or just poking around:

http://www.darronschall.com/weblog/archives/000130.cfm
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "hank williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> You can use local sharedObjects. Depending on your needs this may or> may not be sufficient. sharedObjects cannot be carried from one> computer to another or emailed or backed up. Basically any object can
> be saved by name to the shared object. This can include all object> types. But the user doesnt have access to the file like a regular file> that you would save to. Also there is a limit to the size by default.
> I think the limit is 100k. But you can ask the user to go into> preferences and change it if you need.> > If this is not sufficient, you will need to wait for apollo, or you> will need to use one of several projectors such as zinc, mdm,
> screenweaver hx (open source) and a number of others. In the case of> these projectors they basically create stand alone exe apps.> > Regards> Hank> > On 10/24/06, nathanpdaniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Is there a way to communicate/write/save data locally to some sort of> > database (be it an actual db like mysql/access or plain text csv/xml)> > from within Flex? I want to store info retreived from my app locally
> > without server side code. Any ideas or am I limited to creating web> > applications only?> >> >> >> >> >> > --> > Flexcoders Mailing List
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